Moving Fast and Securing Things at Slack — Ease of deployment and security often have an inverse relationship but it pays to get both right. Slack does this by following a Security Development Lifecycle and has built some tools and processes to manage it smoothly.

Max Feldman

Rethinking Web Performance with Service Workers — The author makes a bold claim of this article covering ‘30 years of research in a 30 minute read’. It gets a bit tool/platform specific at the end but does cover many key points and best practices in Web performance.

Google Introduces '.app', a TLD for Apps — Currently registration is in ‘early access’ only with general availability from May 8. Also, thanks to HSTS, HTTPS support will be mandatory for all .app domains.

Microservicing with Envoy, Istio and Kubernetes — “As we move to services architectures, we push the complexity to the space between our services.” And tools like Envoy (the proxy) and Istio (the service mesh) can help us manage such complexity.